TY - JOUR A1 - Sandner, Malte T1 - Effects of early childhood intervention on fertility and maternal employment: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial T2 - Journal of Health Economics N2 - This paper presents the results of a randomized study of a home visiting program implemented in Germany for low-income, first-time mothers. Besides improving child health and development, a major goal of the program is to improve the participants' economic self-sufficiency and family planning. I use administrative data from the German social security system and detailed telephone surveys to examine the effects of the intervention on maternal employment, welfare benefits, household composition, well-being, and fertility behavior. The study reveals that the intervention decreased maternal employment by 9.3 percentage points and increased subsequent births by 6.4 percentage points, in part through a reduction in abortions. KW - Early childhood intervention; Fertility; Randomized experiment Y1 - 2019 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-ohm/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3438 SN - 0167-6296 VL - 63 SP - 159 EP - 181 PB - Elsevier BV ER -